Firefox + Windows 7 = Winfox
Windows 7 comes with new Superbar. Superbar provides lots of new functionality like Jumplist which allows you to access various useful options, recently opened documents, Live Taskbar thumbnails, progress bar etc.
While browsing the internet, I found a simple firefox extension that will add Windows 7 superbar features to you Firefox.
“Winfox” can add following functionality to Firefox under Windows 7:
- Frequent Items support
- Tasks support
- Pin support
- Auto-detection of the Firefox directory and user profile
- FavIcon support (downloads top fifteen favicons to your Firefox Cache directory)
- Launch Firefox by clicking on the Winfox icon
- Linking of all open Firefox windows – Sets all Firefox windows to use Winfox (only if Winfox is running)
- Taskbar progress overlay when downloading files
- Number of open tabs illustrated using a taskbar icon overlay
- Multiple Firefox profile support
Requirements
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and above, Windows 7
Note: Winfox must be running to update your top sites. Firefox extension installation required to get tab count and progress bar overlays
Installation Technique
By downloading the zip file you will have 3 files,Extract them, run the WinFox_x86 or WinFox_x64 depending on your arcitechture. On the Destination Folder put you Firefox installed directory for example
C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe
Now run Firefox and drag winfox.xpi to your firefox window. Select install and close it.
Pin Winfox to Taskbar to utilize easy launch and access to your Firefox Jumplist.
You are done!
Winfox102.zip (1.4 MiB, 1,694 hits)
Useless program! not working as the developer said and there is no proper documentation available.
However I found some tryserver build of Firefox has this feature (but in its childhood, not working as Google Chrome)